Little Artist!!

Loved your expression

She coming towards me managing all in one..



Reet's first painting painted with Color of love

Love care and concern!!

 

Today I am feeling very great, happy and proud. This is the first post written by Siddharth on my blog. Siddharth school has adopted two pups.. so we decided to write on topic of love, care and concern. Here are the thoughts from Siddharth:

You should love and care everyone around you and you should be concerned. If someone gets hurt in his emotions or physically, we should take care for same. Our school philosophy is all about loving and caring of each other. Our school recently got two pups and everyone adores them

 

We should be concerned about nature around us and the ways to save it. Nature gives us so much like shade, wood. When it is cut and also paper when it is cut. It also gives us herbs from shrubs. It gives us fruits, furniture, water, and oxygen. It gives us coal, diamond etc. We can utilise our resources but we also need to save them in many ways like the water we use to wash our cloths can be recycled to water plants. We can also save nature by not cutting trees and not wasting water or not polluting it.

 

I love to read stories to my sister. I love the way she says bye take care to me when I go to school in morning. I love the way she hugs me. I love to play in school after my school gets off with my friends and with new pups in my school. Their names are marsh and mellow. Here are the few pictures my mom has clicked.

 

 

Marsh and Mellow

 

Deciding on game rules

cycling with my friend

 

Reet enjoying with Marsh and Mellow

 

Simply Love!!

On this love day today many thought came across my mind. 

I could not sleep well in night, so got up late and husband managed Siddharth for morning chores. Around 10 when he called, I first thought maybe he has called to wish me. Then when he asked about Siddharth sports day schedule, I thought how the definition of this love day changes after being married for a decade now. Love is not wishing each other on valentine, Love is to take care of each other and stand by after knowing each other weakness. Love is oneness. Love is to reschedule your meeting so that you can be present on your son’s sports day.

Love is to share your chocolate with your son. Love is to play on swing every day after reaching home with your kids. Love is to sit together, share a laugh and make up after a fight. 

Love is when Reet calls fondly Siddhu. Love is when she warns herself by saying No Reet. Love is living life in those small installments of happiness. Love is to make choice to be with your kids. Love is to share a story; love is to sing aloud with your favorite song. Love is to dance. 

Love is when Siddharth sits and read a book to her; love is to take care of her when I am not around. 

Love is to just watch Reet drink water from a one litre bottle sitting on the street of Dubai. Love is to play games at top of world, without bothering what others will think about you. Love is to play corner corner in Qutab. Love is to capture all those moments in frames. Love is to just sit and play with a dog.

Love is to take your parents on a play and sharing those small moments of happiness with them. Love is to build a life that they are proud of it. 

I am so glad that I have so many things to share love now. Not a single day but every day. 

But yes I still laugh on my innocence on first valentine; when I got very emotional and made a special heart from red fleece for husband with my name embroidered on same. I still remember this day from my college, teasing each other on how many card or flower we get. Reading that message from newspaper and laughing aloud together.. 

I close this Valentine day today with a beautiful hug to my family for being there with me to create this lovely moments!! 

I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love...it is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives."
--- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

My two children!!

This place has been ignored for a very long time. Life is being so busy in juggling multiple priorities that I am not getting time to sit at peace and write for this. There are so many things which I wanted to write. Every time I notice Reet saying each word after me, Siddharth writing so many beautiful stories and poems. I want to copy paste all of them here. 

Life is a bliss with two of them around. Today post is about growing with both of them. Siddharth does everything on his own and doesn't need me for any of his daily chores. He is very independent . I always use to believe that its only nine years that kids need you. I am very happy the way he has been grown. A sensitive, intelligent and caring child. He has a different view of looking and doing anything, which is very different from where I see them. I love to see him being very creative. He enjoys cooking with me. Sometimes both of us love to sit together, play and read, and at other times we just want to be in our own spaces. He is into his routine of coming from school, reading book, doing homework and getting into sleep. 

Reet a charming for all of us, is always on a mission like me. She roams in the whole house and wants to try everything which we all doing. She will try her best to get what she wants. If she wants me to read her book, she will come , close my computer and tells me to read her the book. She loves to follow pattern, the way I do anything with her initial she can follow it every time. She always amazes me with her quick learning ability. At her age of 25 months she can pronounce words like squeak. She can tell her name and manage drinking water on her own from a glass. She eats Roti on own and does not like if you break it into pieces for her. She prefers to sit on dining table with us not on her chair. She loves music, can catch any tune and dances every night on songs played on my phone. She can sleep in whole night now. 

I am thankful to God for these two cute children. After reading the post I am feeling so happy that I wrote this. The picture below truly depicts my life currently. The steering wheel of my life has come to my second child now. 

My little Expressive Child!!

My last post was about Siddharth writing a beautiful story on his own, and this is about beautiful words my little 21 months old can speak. The life is at a contrast and i am loving it. Yes i also have my moments to feel upset few of them are when my movement get restricted.Then i come to this place, read the post, and feel great. I have made a conscious decision of not hiring a nanny for my kids. I want to enjoy their childhood... why do i pay someone to enjoy a beautiful childhood. Here are the cute words Reet can speak in her cute and clear voice.

She could say words like मम्मा,पापा, भाई, नानी, bye and tata from the age of ten months. Now for the last few days she repeats every word we say, she is our little parrot. 

1. Muma is the one most clear word and of course her first word at the age of 10 month. She started saying on my brother gagan wedding. 

2. Papa - There is a beautiful story behind this, she started with saying daddy the moment vivek will say Papa she would say daddy. Then one day she said Papa on 26th July 2013 (not in front of him) and now he is Papa.

3. भाई - She said Bhai very clearly and from the beginning he was Bhai and now she fondly calls him भैया and to my surprise she can say Siddharth. 

4. Nanny 

5. Daddy - To my dad 

6. खोलो - open

7. बंद- close

8. दीदी

9. गीता - Our Domestic help

10. Thank you - When you give anything to her you will hear a beautiful sound of Thank you

11. काकुच - When she want to eat snack, fruit

12. खाना- She know a clear difference between a meal and snack. 

13. रोटी  

14. Wow

15. Oh oh!

16. Shoe - whenever i get ready she will start following me saying shoe...

17. Park - When  we wear her the shoe, or we get down to the park.. the first word is park and second is swing 

18. पानी - water 

19. Peek a boo

20. Jingle - The moment she will sit on her high chair for food she will say jingle means play jingle bells for me and then Bingo

21. Dance - Lets dance 

22. हट - GO away

23.Cow, Pig, Cat

24. Come lets go

25. No No  

26. दादी
27. I touch - I wonder why we call it ipad... 

While writing this i just learned that she can say many words and is on the journey to express her beautifully.... 

Magic Wand

Yesterday Siddharth wrote a beautiful story on Hamara Mela ( His schools birthday celebration happened on sep 28th) 

I was on hamara mela in the magic land, i found a real wand. Suddenly i felt like something was pulling me towards it. I could not hold of it and jerked me and i went flying into the sky. Then there was a flash of pink light and i fell on something soft!..... 

Where was i what was this thing i felt really sacred and pretty hungry. I got up and saw i was lying on a hay and it looked like i was in a forest. Suddenly two little creatures came out the bushes they move they were as small as honeybees and insects. 

The first thing i felt was excitement then it grew into fear. I went to their homes and hey told me they were faries. All of them talked happily and joked till fairy queen told me that a goblin was troubling them and the holder of pink wand could kill it. ....

I went to the goblins lair and waited for it to the goblin fought violently but i killed them and once again peace was restored in fairy land. we had a great feast and the everything went pink and i was in my homes backyard again.  

So many children begged me to tell me my adventures that i wrote a story about it and you have just finished reading it. 

A wonderful story, reminds me of the day of writing about him when he just learned how to talk and today he narrates a story. I am felling so happy that my purpose of thins blog is getting fulfilled, signing off now with a promise to me that i will be more regular in writing here... God Bless!! 

Raksha Bandhan 2013

 

Siddharth and Reet celebrated this Rakhsa Bandhan.The best thing about festivals is that i can wear Reet a lehnga and i love the way she carries her special dress. She was very excited since morning and the most amazing was that she could feed Siddharth sweets. Manveer Siddahrth close friend joined us this rakhi and Reet tied the rakhi to him also and excitedly fed him sweets. I am eagerly waiting for the next year rakhi, when i believe she can tie the rakhi to her brother herself and narrate me the story also. Here are the pictures: 

Growing Together!!

Today while cleaning up Siddharth room, Reet came and helped me. When reet born everyone told me that now you will have a different experience, girls are very different. They are emotionally more attached to you. Today i can understand what they meant, a small job which i need to tell Siddharth more than ten times, reet is helping me on her own. I am not comparing my two kids; we are all different from each other.  Reet is a little explorer while Siddharth has been always a creative child. He amazes me with many things he makes from lego. His airplanes and car design i sometime believe i should get it patented. 

Life is growing at a fast pace with two of them around, when i see both of them growing with love and affection towards each other. It gives me a feeling of calmness that they are there for each other. They both have a gap of more than eight years, but when they are together it never seems. She can give him an equal response when he teases her, he can play with her as if she is equal to his age. They both fight with each other and then they are together. He teases her by taking away the things she likes; she teases him with love from us. She never allows him to come near me when i am holding her. She sleeps early and he reads late. But they are never apart.

 

Life is all about the difference i can make in their life. When they grow up, they will be leading their own life, making their own future. I will remember these days of growing together through this blog and when i am not there they can come and see this space, how beautiful the life is when you grow together!! 

गर्मी की छूटी से जन्मदिन तक!!

This space has been ignored for a very long time.. Life is running at its pace. My mind is occupied with so many things that could not get time to concentrate and write. Today when i read the blog of my other friends it inspired me to write the post. This post is an update on the life spent in the last three months.

In my last post where Reet has started walking, today she walks completely. The journey from first steps to the more steps has been wonderful. I talked to myself that when we go to pick Siddharth from school after the summer vacation, Reet will walk on her own. As if she listened to my thoughts and the moment we steeped out of the house, she walked on her own. That was the first day that she walked and did not hold my finger.

The summer this time was very different from all other holidays, With Siddharth reaching to his preteen age and getting more independent he wanted to do activities on his own . His love for books has increased so much that he did not like to do anything in the summer. We finished the whole project work for summer in the last three days, where we both had great fun in creating poems, crosswords and different layout for his work. We had conflicts on the opinion where i took time to understand what was in his mind and finally i agreed to him. 

After the summer, Reet started walking. It took me time to believe that she was on her own now. Her love for exploring thing has experimented many things from our wallet to each drawer in the house. She can make tower by staking pieces.

With both of them growing, there are some moments where i felt that time should stop here. Here are the few pics

 उड़ी, नींदें आँखों से जुड़ी, रातें ख्वाबों से मूडी, यह जाने मैं कहाँ!!